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Shifts in livestock technology, programming, and composition: exploring the future of livestock agriculture
… 1947). We estimated the relationship between livestock consolidation and county economic indicators (unemployment rate, GDP, ag GDP, per capita personal income).
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Surveillance of Emerging Livestock Viruses
… several emerging viral diseases impacting the livestock industry and to provide insight into appropriate control strategies. Recent, severe outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) in Asia and North America highlighted the need for well-validated diagnostic tests for identification …
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Cooperative livestock marketing in Virginia
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Transformation of Smallholder Livestock Keeping into Commercial Livestock Keeping in Rukwa Region South Western Tanzania
Smallholder livestock keeping in Tanzania accounts for about 80% of households that keep livestock. Smallholder livestock keeping holds an upper hand in poverty reduction as well as increasing food security within families and the nation at large. Smallholder livestock keeping has become the key …
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Livestock and Crop Production Patterns in Uttar Pradesh, India and Projections of Alternative Livestock Development Possibilities
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T22:03:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405662.pdf: 4952637 bytes, checksum: 87fa2b30e0375c081fdbbed68bd0333b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Livestock Marketing Problems in Southern Illinois
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High throughput livestock monitoring using computer vision
… feeds to ensure high throughput monitoring of livestock. We first consider a pig dataset acquired in controlled lab environments and apply state-of-the-art action recognition methods to it. The 'Pig Novelty Preference Behavioral Dataset' is used to train and validate the performance of …
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Energetics of a sustainable crop-livestock system
This study compares the energy utilization of two systems for producing cattle of desirable slaughter weight and grade from weanlings. Both systems produce beef cattle as a primary output; various types of baled hay are produced as a secondary output. One system uses generally accepted, "best …
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Silvopasture interests among livestock producers in Virginia
… intentionally integrates trees, forage, and livestock. It is increasingly prevalent in outreach and extension, yet considerations for adoption are complex. The implementation of a cost-share initiative for silvopasture created by the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) in Virginia in …
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Essays on Price Analysis of Livestock Market
This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter titled ``U.S. Grass-fed Beef Price Premiums" examined monthly retail-level price premiums for grass-fed beef (relative to conventional grain-fed beef) in the U.S. from 2014 through 2021. We found that premiums were heterogeneous, with …
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Livestock production and animal health management systems in communal farming areas at the wildlife-livestock interface in southern Africa
… practical and sustainable solutions for wildlife‐livestock integration in the conservation landscape. Due to the presence of buffalo Syncerus caffer in most of the TFCAs in southern Africa, foot‐and‐mouth disease (FMD) has to be controlled in susceptible livestock species sharing the rangelands …
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Distillers grains and the livestock industry in western Canada
… farmers and land owners in the long term. The livestock industry however remains in a complex position facing the possibility of higher feed costs on the one hand and potential savings in feed cost on the other, with the availability of distillers grains- a by-product from ethanol production. …
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Interactions and epidemiology of nematode worm control in livestock
The livestock industry relies heavily upon anthelmintics for the treatment of parasitic nematode diseases. This has resulted in widespread resistance to multiple anthelmintic classes across several parasitic genera. In response to this spread in resistance and subsequent decrease in efficacy there …
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Annual forage cropping-systems for midwestern ruminant livestock production
… forage cropping systems are a vital aspect of livestock forage production. One area where this production system can be enhanced is the integration of novel annual forages into conventional cropping systems. Two separate projects were conducted to investigate alternative forage options in …
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Applicability and limitations of transcriptomic pipelines in livestock species
… and prioritize pertinent genes and transcripts. Livestock species represent a vital branch of the Tree of Life, serving as food sources, model organisms, and essential species within ecological niches. Extending bioinformatics tools from humans to livestock species necessitates evaluating the …
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Gas-phase biofiltration for livestock building ammonia emission mitigation
… as an effective technology to mitigate certain livestock building ammonia emissions. Biofilters are bio-reactors that can absorb ammonia and then oxidize it into nitrite and nitrate using microorganisms. Woodchips and composts are often used as packing materials thus making it an affordable …
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Human-assisted high throughput livestock tracking using computer vision
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Implications of Connectedness in the Genetic Evaluation of Livestock
The reliability of genetic evaluations across separate management units (e.g. flocks) depends on the extent of genetic links or connections among animals in these units. Where poor connectedness exists, comparisons of estimated breeding values (EBV) across units may be biased. The objectives of …
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